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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.
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Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.
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No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
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Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.
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People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.
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History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.
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Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity
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Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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